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Salesforce continues to eat the world (3 billion transactions today!) as teams want to quickly get data-driven applications up and running with minimal effort. However, for most apps to be truly useful, they need to be connected to other sources… Read More ›

As a Microsoft MVP for Integration – or however I’m categorized now – I keep a keen interest in where Microsoft is going with (app) integration technologies. Admittedly, I’ve had trouble keeping up with all the various changes, and thought… Read More ›

In a couple weeks, I’ll be invading Houston, TX to deliver a pair of sessions at Microsoft TechEd. This conference – one of the largest annual Microsoft events – focuses on technology available today for developers and IT professionals. I… Read More ›

Amazon Kinesis is a new data stream processing service from AWS that makes it possible to ingest and read high volumes of data in real-time. That description may sound vaguely familiar to those who followed Microsoft’s attempts to put their… Read More ›

Windows Azure BizTalk Services was recently released by Microsoft, and you can find a fair bit about this cloud service online. I wrote up a simple walkthrough, Sam Vanhoutte did a nice comparison of features between BizTalk Server and BizTalk… Read More ›

The “integration as a service” space continues to heat up, and Microsoft officially entered the market with the General Availability of Windows Azure BizTalk Services (WABS) a few weeks ago. I recently wrote up an InfoQ article that summarized the… Read More ›

My trilogy of AWS courses for Pluralsight is complete. I originally created AWS Developer Fundamentals, then added Architecting Highly Available Systems on AWS, and today released Optimizing and Managing Distributed Systems on AWS. This course picks up from where we… Read More ›